Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction and Research in Psychology

心理学-认知学(73)是一个本科生教学和研究实验室，为本科生提供科学方法论和信息技术的基础，使他们能够在随后的职业中使用和解释研究。这种技能在我们社会的所有部门都变得越来越重要。该实验室服务于匹兹堡大学的大约500名学生，其中一半以上是女性。匹兹堡大学是一所以招收和留住非裔美国人而闻名的机构。新开发的E-Prime软件正在实验室中使用。通过使普通实验室课程的学生能够开发、设计、实施和分析他们自己的实验，E-Prime为更有效地教授研究原理提供了基础。学生可以使用广泛的方法生成和执行新颖的实验，并获得经验，包括收集行为和生理测量数据，重新分析大脑成像数据，以及对数字化面部表情进行编码。正在对涉及使用E-Prime的实验室活动进行调整，使之适用于所有专业都需要的实验方法通用课程，以及两门实质性的高级课程：a)学习和动机以及b)人类认知和学习。该实验室也对做定向个人研究和荣誉论文的学生开放，这两项都涉及进行实证研究。在NSF的支持下，我们正在对信息技术在心理学本科生研究方法论教学中的应用产生重大影响。心理学是美国最大的本科专业之一。该项目有机会通过开发和测试通过我们的工业合作伙伴心理学软件工具分发的实验来影响全国范围的科学教育。最终，这些实验和相关的教学材料每年可能会有数万名本科生使用。

Psychology - Cognitive (73) An undergraduate laboratory for instruction and research is providing undergraduate psychology students with the foundation in scientific methodology and information technology that will enable them to use and interpret research in their subsequent careers. Such skills are becoming increasingly important in all sectors of our society. The lab serves approximately 500 students, well over half of whom are female, at the University of Pittsburgh, an institution that has been recognized for its recruitment and retention of African Americans. The newly developed E-Prime software is being adapted for use in the laboratory. E-Prime provides the basis for far more effective teaching of research principles by enabling students in normal laboratory courses to develop, design, conduct, and analyze their own experiments. Students can generate and perform novelexperiments as well as gain experience using a wide range of methodologies, including the collection of behavioral and physiological measures, the re-analysis of brain imaging data, and the coding of digitized facial expressions. Lab activities, involving the use of E-Prime, are being adapted for a general course in Experimental Methods that is required of all majors, as well as two substantive upper level courses: a) Learning and Motivation and b) Human Cognition and Learning. The lab is also available to students doing Directed Individual Research and Honors Theses, both of which involve conducting empirical research. With NSF support, we are having a major impact on the way information technology is utilized in the teaching of research methodology for undergraduate students of psychology, one of the largest undergraduate majors in the country. This project has the opportunity to affect science education on a national scale through the development and testing of experiments that are distributed through our industrial partner, Psychology Software Tools. Ultimately, the experiments and related instructional materials are likely to be used by tens of thousands of undergraduates annually.